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Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology (Paperback)

by Eric Drexler (Author)

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Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Non Basic Stock Line; Reprint edition (1 Oct 1987)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0385199732
ISBN-13: 978-0385199735
Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 13.5 x 2.5 cm

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5.0 out of 5 stars the 21st century's bible, 11 Aug 2005

By	FILIPE LUIG RIBEIRO - See all my reviews

If Carl Sagan's Cosmos was the book about everything (being the Universe everything) then Eric Drexler's Engines of Creation could well be the 21st Century's Bible.. Notice that it was written quite a long time ago yet it'll be hard even for the next generation to criticise. It's a true vision with a magnificent scientific support. It tells you all about nanotechnology's power to be with it's overwhelming future effects on our society. It's also great for you if you're starting a career in nanosciences allthough the practical aspect has been neglected to some extent (being difficult to prove most of his visions - for the time being..) I'm convinced that he's shown us the next human being's Frontier with this masterpiece and it should be read in school no matter what you'll be studying in the future.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A definitive book about the subject, 5 Mar 2007

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This book is one of the definitive early books on Nanotechnology, from K. Eric Drexler, who developed most of the concept. The nanotechnology proposed by Drexler is not merely the sort of "nanotechnology" described routinely in the media in stories about new drugs or hair products but a fully capable system of "digital matter processing" using machines built to nanometere level precision, capable of self-replicating and doing for the handling of matter what computers did for the handling of information.

This book aims for readability and persuasion more than depth, but Drexler's other definitive book, Nanosystems, discusses the concept in more technical detail. For most readers, however, this book is an ideal introduction to Drexler's ideas.

If Drexler is right then once such technology appears the world will be radically different. Engines of Creation is an essential book for anyone interested in future technology.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing, 27 Dec 2002

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Drexler takes the reader methodically through the possibilities of nanotechnology. He builds a really strong case for the inevitability of this technology and how profoundly it will change the world. His philosophical reasoning is outstanding and I have to say I'm convinced about what he is saying. When you get his vision, you realize just how archaic the pre-nano world will seem from the future. How inexact our "bulk-technology" is! Dealing with billions of atoms at a time at best - come on!

Also dealt with is the coming age of intelligent machines. In Drexler's future intelligent machines and are tied in very closely with nanotechnology.

Anyone who is remotely interested in this topic or the future of mankind should read this book; it's a mind blower. It was given to me by a friend and in the inscription he wrote that this book has turned him "religious" - religious about nanotechnology.

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